Perhaps the most significant casting, at least for fans of the game, is Rachel Bloom, who voices the bird Silver, a character from the 2015 sequel to the Angry Birds game, The Angry Birds 2. There is even a Hollywood in-joke, with the children of actors Nicole Kidman, Viola Davis and Gal Gadot all taking minor speaking roles as cute hatchling chicks. "It's amazing how many characters we have that the scene becomes about them, without losing track of the story … so many characters that are so funny in and of themselves." "We've got a lot of characters that steal the show," admits Van Orman. "But with this one, we've had so much freedom to move into our own territory, really flesh these characters out and not be so tied down to game play."Īmong the impressive array of voice actors are Crazy Rich Asians star Awkwafina, as Leonard's assistant Courtney singer Nicki Minaj as songstress bird Pinky and Girls Trip star Tiffany Haddish, who plays Debbie, Zeta's doting yet clumsy assistant. " They were a little more married to the video game because they had to make sense of them coming from the same world ," he says. Gettyĭespite his enthusiasm for games, Van Orman and his animation team (many of them coming over from Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse ) were determined to take the sequel in a different direction. You can learn within a minute how to play the game, but you never master it."įrom left, director Thurop Van Orman, producer John Cohen and voice actor Josh Gad. "The golden standard for a video game is it that takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master," he says. In other words, he understood what made the Angry Birds game tick. " But I think for the past 20 years I've wanted to tell a bigger story."Ī former storyboard artist on shows such as The Powerpuff Girls and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Van Orman also had a distinct advantage when it came to directing an Angry Birds movie because he started his career in video games. "I love the TV world, I love how fast it moves, I love how quickly you come up with stories," he says. Nominated for Emmys for his work on cartoon series Adventure Time and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Van Orman was looking for a new challenge after working in TV for so long. " She's a character that I think the audience is going to find themselves, unexpectedly, relating to and connecting with."Īmong the other changes made to freshen things up, director Thurop Van Orman took over from Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, who directed the original movie. "They often say in the development of Marvel movies that the heroes have to have flaws but the villains have to have virtues," says Cohen, warming to his comic theme. Voiced by Leslie Jones (who featured in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot), Zeta is a tropical eagle with plans of coloni sing both Pig Island and Bird Island due to her own habitat's inclement weather. The Birds and the Pigs team up in ‘The Angry Birds Movie 2’. This feathered predator even has her own theme tune: Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby. While Marvel's superheroes had to fight the all-conquering Thanos, so the Birds and Pigs' new enemy is the similarly purple-coloured bird of prey Zeta, who swoops down from the chilly Eagle Island, bombing them with glacier cannonballs. "They had trust issues and there was a lot of friction."Īny reference to Marvel's movies is l ikely to sit well in any studio boardroom, given that Avengers: Endgame has become the highest-grossing movie of all time, taking $2.79bn at the box office. "Th e Pigs and Birds have no common ground and yet they have to find some way to function, not unlike when the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Avengers came together for the first time," says Cohen. But now the Birds and Pigs are forced to team up when a new villain, not seen in the original game, comes to town. Once again we are introduced to the feathery Red (voiced by Jason Sudeikis) and his green-skinned porcine rival Leonard (Bill Hader). He went to Rovio Entertainment, the company behind the game, and proposed a new idea: frenemies.
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